SULLIVAN Althea C <br />From: Jens Inge Egeland <jensingeegeland@gmail.com> <br />Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2017 2:49 AM <br />To: SULLIVAN Althea C <br />Follow Up Flag: Follow up <br />Flag Status: Flagged <br />Wendell Canyon Subdivision Application should be denied due to the following issues that will affect the future <br />of South Eugene and surrounding areas. <br />-N. Shasta Loop, Amazon Parkway, Spring Blvd and 30th Ave will not be able to handle the additional 18+ cars <br />that will be using these throughways. This does not include all the other new home sites that are proposed or <br />pending sale around this section of town. Future traffic jams, noise and light pollution are inevitable if builders <br />continue to seek these areas. -There are already issues with dangerous winding roads in the N. Shasta loop area <br />and motorists abusing speed coming through the curves. Children playing at the bottom of Shasta Loop & 43rd <br />are in danger of being struck by cars. Neighbors have opted to place caution cones out when children are <br />playing. Increased traffic in these areas will only worsen the problem. <br />-Home sites in this part of town are not at a price point that is attractive to the average home buyer. Many <br />vacant lots are sitting. It's hard to justify that this area of town "needs more housing" when current home sites <br />have not been sold. -Wendell Canyon would destroy natural fruit trees, and home to animals living and foraging <br />near the wetland that is just adjacent to the proposed site. Why preserve a wetland, when you are going to <br />destroy the habitat right next to it? <br />-Current Wildlife inhabitants in the area are Turkey and Deer. Sightings almost on a daily basis in that area. Not <br />including redheaded woodpeckers and other Passeriformes will leave the area. We also know that Mountain <br />Lion and Bears are just up the hillside on Mt. Baldy which is right up the road. -Housing Market inflation has <br />increased at a rapid and unhealthy rate. Higher than pre housing crisis of 2008. This is a volatile time to permit <br />continue rapid housing growth knowing that economic correction and potential recession is almost inevitable. <br />Permitting continued clearing of land and building more homes in Eugene seems opportunist for monetary gain, <br />not taking into consideration of the above. <br />-Bottom Line is that the current neighbors do not want increased urban sprawl and population density to <br />increase in the South Eugene Neighborhood. Neighbors are already living in an area that is still home to natural <br />wildlife as the stated above, as well as Mountain Lion and Bear near Mt. Baldy. We will start seeing increased <br />rates of destruction and vanishing population if we increase the footprint. -NO to WENDELL CANYON <br />SUBDIVISION. <br />